Improvement in harvesters



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A. WILLARD.

1 Harvesters. {10.150,1923, Patented May2,1374.

WITNS Es. INVENTQR By #MMM 5,-

ATTORN EYS:

UNITED lSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTUS VILLARD, OF SPIRIT LAKE, IOVA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,923, dated May 12, 1874; application filed February 7, 1874.

To all whom lit may concern Be it known that I, AUGUsTUs W ILLAED, of Spirit Lake, in the county of Dickinson and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Self-Baking Attachments for Reapers and Harvesters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is areprescntation. of a plan view of a rcaper having` my binding attachment. Fig. 2 is a front view ofthe same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of the same.

This invention has relation to reaping-machines having binding attachments applied to them; and it mainly consists in a revolving binders station, arranged in rear of the draftframe, and flexibly connected to this frame, and also to the grain-platform. It also consists in certain novel mechanism for actuatingthe said binders station, the gavel-carrier, and the reel, when the binders station is arranged in rear of the draft-frame, and is flexibly connected to it and to the grain-platform. It further convsists in an inclined bundle receiver and discharger combined with` a revolving binders7 station, as will be hereinafter explained.

The following is a description of my improvements:

In the annexed drawings, A designates the draft-frame, which is sustained by two transporting-wheels, that are keyed on an axle, a, on which axle two bevel spur-wheels, al c2, are also keyed. The wheel al gives rotation to a shaft carrying an eccentric, b, on its rear end, which eccentric gives a reciprocating motion to the sickle B by means of a pitman-rod, B. The wheel a2 gives rotation to a short shaft, c, to which one end of an extensible shaft, G, is connected by means of a universal couplingjoint, c. The other end of this shaft C is connected, by a similar coupling-joint, c', to a short shaft, C2, which has its bearing on the front left-hand corner of the grain-platform D. Shaft C2 carries asmall bevel-wheel, d, which engages with a larger wheel, d1, on a vertical shaft, d?. This vertical shaft d2 has two bevel-wheels, d3 d4, keyed on it above the wheel dl, the upper one, d, of which wheels engages with awheel, d5, on a reel-shaft, E, one of the reel-bars of which is armed with teeth for `raking back the cut grain. The extensible shaft C and its joints will allow the platform Dto articulate freely and accommodate itself to the undulations of the ground. The platform D is flexibly connected to the front left-hand corner of the main draft-frame A by means of a curved brace, N, which is hinged at its front end to said frame, and at its rear end to the front left-hand corner of the platform. This platform D is also connected to a frame. E, by means of hinges or pivots at e, which frame is arranged behind the draft frame A, and connected to it by means of a suspension draw-bar, f. Frame E is mounted on two wheels, F F1, applied at its ends, and arranged in line with a wheel, F2, on which the platform D is supported.. Gr designates a circular binders stand, which is constructed with elevated binders tables, g, and mounted on rollers g', which travel on a bed, H, raised above the frame E, and supported upon it. The binders stand or station Gr has a vertical shaft, h, centrally fixed to it, which shaft passes through the bed H, and has a large bevel spur-wheel, J, keyed on it beneath this bed. Wheel J engages with a pinion, J f, on a short shaft, z', which shaft is supported in a bearing fixed to the bottom of the bed H, and shown in Fig. 3. The front end of shaft t' is connected to the rear end of shaft a, on

draft-frame A, by means of an extensible shaft, w

I, and universal joints, in the same manner the shaft C is connected to the shaft C2 on the platform. It will thus be seen that the binders carriage is free to articulate and accommodate itself to the undulations of the ground, independent of the draft-frame and the platform D. I erect on the platform'D a frame-work, K, which affords bearings for four horizontal shafts, j, on which sprocket-wheels k are keyed in pairs. Around the wheels k are applied rag-chains l l, to which a rake, m, is secured. The chains and their wheels are so arranged that the rake m, in its revolution, will carry the grain in proper quantities to form a gavel from the platform D, then elevate it up an inclined plane, L, xed to the delivery side of the platfbrm, and deposit it into a concave gavel-receiver, L', which is arranged in close relation to the binders tables as they revolve beneath it. The bindersean thus conveniently remove the gavels from the receiver L, place these gavels upon their tables, then bind them, after which the gavels are deposited into an inclined trough, M, which is fixed to the rear end of the binders carriage, as shown in Figs. l and 3. The lower end of this inclined trough M is provided with a hinged gate, a, which opens outwardly, and to which a short arm, n', is xed. This arm n 'is connected, by a rod, p, to a hand-lever, pf, which latter is pivoted to the binders. carriage in a convenient position to the binders as they revolve. By means of this gavel-trough the grain can be delivered upon the ground out of the way ofthe team in succeeding rounds, and there will be no liability ot1 scattering the grain.

Vhat I claim as new is- 1. The combination, with a revolving binders stand, its supporting-carriage, and a draftcarriage, ofthe main gear J, drive-shaft a3, and flexible extension-coupling I, substantially as specified.

hinged gate, connecting-rod, and operatinglever, extending above the binders stand, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses. l

AUGUSTUS VILLARD.

Witnesses HENRY Louis OWENS,

XERRIT SMITH NEEM-IAM. 

